NYT Connections hints and answers, Friday Apr 11

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Need a hint for today's Connections on Friday, 11th April? The time has come to once again solve another Connections puzzle. Don't expect to get this one in just a handful of tries - today's collection of categories is bound to take some time to figure out.

This guide has a step-by-step selection of hints to help you in the puzzle-solving process. Keep scrolling for tips on each category, as well as straightforward answers in case you'd rather maintain your score without any faff.

In this guide:

• How to play Connections
• Connections hint for Friday 11th April
• What are today's Connections groups?
• What are today's Connections answers?

Here are the 16 Connections words for today:

How to play Connections

Connections is one of the most popular (and challenging) daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). The aim of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, where each group of four words has a common theme.

For instance, the words "Hook", "Nana", "Peter", and "Wendy" are all Peter Pan characters. Or to take another example, "Action", "Ballpark", "Go", and "Stick" are all words which commonly come just before the word "Figure".

Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the various words together - but be wary, because a lot of the time there are deceptive red herring connections placed purely to throw you off! To win the game, you have to find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is revealed automatically.

Each of the four groups in each day's Connections puzzle is also assigned a different colour, which represents how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colours are: Yellow (Easiest), Green (Easy), Blue (Medium), and Purple (Hardest).

Click here to play today's Connections puzzle!

Connections hint for Friday 11th April

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: All contribute to good health.
• Green: You can often see these words in the names of major storefronts
• Blue: All have a certain five-pointed shape associated with shining.
• Purple: All come after a two-letter word that is the opposite of "Stop."
• Extra hint 1: Town and World are in the same group.
• Extra hint 2: All Out and Between are in the same group.

If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:

• Yellow:Sunshine
• Green:Land
• Blue:Galaxy
• Purple:Kart

Spoiler warning! Today's Connections groups are revealed just below!

What are today's Connections groups?

If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today's Connections puzzle, below we'll reveal the four correct Connections groups - the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.

Here are the Connections groups for today:

• Yellow: Sources Of Vitamins
• Green: Places Used In Retail Suffixes
• Blue: Places To Find Stars
• Purple: Words After “Go”

Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today's puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.

Spoiler warning! Today's Connections answer lies ahead!

What is today's Connections answer?

Here is the answer to today's Connections puzzle on Friday, 11th April:

• Yellow: Sources Of Vitamins (Citrus, Leafy Greens, Sunshine, Supplements)
• Green: Places Used In Retail Suffixes (City, Land, Town, World)
• Blue: Places To Find Stars (American Flag, Galaxy, Red Carpet, Uber Rating)
• Purple: Words After “Go” (All Out, Between, Kart, Steady)

"Places Used in Retail Suffixes" is a tricky category, especially if you don't live in a basin of rampant consumerism, where strip malls are often labeled with uncreative names like "Video Land," "Food World," etc. (I grew up in such a place, and I've spent my adult life getting as far away from it as possible!)

Other than that, today's Connections categories aren't too bad. I spent a long time mulling over the Purple words, though the "Go" of "Go-Kart" should've been a giveaway. Hopefully the hint I provided above makes the guessing process much easier for you!

Congratulations if you got today's Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you didn't succeed today, don't worry - a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!